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10 Node Research ISC20 List
This is the official list released at ISC-HPC 20 for the 10 Node Challenge. The list shows the best result for a given combination of system/institution/filesystem qualifying for the 10 Node Challenge.
| # | Information | IO500 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BoF | Institution | System | Storage Vendor | File System Type | Client Nodes | Total Client Proc. | Score | BW | MD | Repro. | |
| (GiB/s) | (kIOP/s) | ||||||||||
| 1 | ISC20 | LNCC | SDumont | Cay/HPE | Lustre | 10 | 240 | 3.06 | 2.32 | 4.02 | - |
| 2 | SC19 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | nearline4 | Qumulo | Scale-out NAS | 10 | 760 | 3.67 | 2.45 | 5.49 | - |
| 3 | SC19 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | nrs | Qumulo | Scale-out NAS | 10 | 760 | 4.19 | 2.88 | 6.11 | - |
| 4 | SC19 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | Vast | Vast Data | Scale-out NAS | 10 | 820 | 8.01 | 6.31 | 10.17 | - |
| 5 | SC19 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | dm11 | #N/A | Scale-out NAS | 10 | 760 | 6.42 | 2.61 | 15.82 | - |
| 6 | SC19 | National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore | Aspire 1 | DDN | IME | 10 | 160 | 43.04 | 101.75 | 18.21 | - |
| 7 | SC19 | Nanyang Technological University | Hadley | DDN | GPFS | 10 | 640 | 12.89 | 7.47 | 22.24 | - |
| 8 | SC19 | Stanford | Sherlock/Regal | Dell | Lustre | 10 | 160 | 7.05 | 1.64 | 30.28 | - |
| 9 | SC19 | IST Austria | IST Austria HPC | Homemade@IST | BeeGFS | 10 | 100 | 6.63 | 1.39 | 31.62 | - |
| 10 | ISC20 | SUSE | HammerHead | SUSE/Ampere/Arm | CephFS | 10 | 220 | 15.61 | 7.34 | 33.22 | - |
| 11 | SC19 | SUSE | TigerShark | SUSE, Intel, Lenovo | SUSE Enterprise Storage - CephFS | 10 | 80 | 12.43 | 4.64 | 33.34 | - |
| 12 | ISC20 | National Center for Supercomputing Applications | HAL | DDN | Spectrum Scale | 10 | 100 | 11.31 | 3.62 | 35.37 | - |
| 13 | SC19 | Clemson University | Palmetto Burstbuffer | AdvancedHPC | BeeGFS | 10 | 120 | 21.55 | 12.97 | 35.80 | - |
| 14 | SC19 | Stanford | Sherlock/Oak | Dell, QCT, HGST | Lustre | 10 | 240 | 9.31 | 1.89 | 45.87 | - |
| 15 | SC19 | Stanford | Sherlock/Fir | Dell, QCT, HGST | Lustre | 10 | 240 | 18.25 | 5.23 | 63.74 | - |
| 16 | SC19 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | SharedScratch | WekaIO | Parallel Filesystem | 10 | 1,440 | 36.55 | 18.58 | 71.90 | - |
| 17 | ISC20 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | BeeGFS on Oracle Cloud | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | BeeGFS | 10 | 160 | 32.79 | 14.02 | 76.67 | - |
| 18 | SC19 | National Supercomputing Center in Changsha | Tianhe-2E | National University of Defense Technology | Lustre | 10 | 160 | 52.58 | 35.06 | 78.86 | - |
| 19 | ISC20 | Janelia Research Campus, HHMI | SharedScratch | WekaIO | Parallel Filesystem | 10 | 600 | 31.39 | 12.34 | 79.83 | - |
| 20 | SC19 | University of Birmingham | BEAR-AI | DDN | Spectrum Scale | 10 | 80 | 15.39 | 2.74 | 86.48 | - |
| 21 | SC19 | Penguin Computing Benchmarking and Innovation Lab | Penguin-ASG-NVBeeOne | Penguin Computing/Excelero | BeeGFS | 10 | 320 | 39.65 | 17.71 | 88.76 | - |
| 22 | ISC20 | Red Hat | EC2-10xi3en.metal | Red Hat | CephFS | 10 | 320 | 57.17 | 26.29 | 124.30 | - |
| 23 | SC19 | CSIRO | bracewell | Dell/ThinkParQ | beegfs | 10 | 160 | 66.80 | 33.77 | 132.15 | - |
| 24 | ISC20 | DDN | DIME | DDN | IME | 10 | 110 | 116.95 | 100.37 | 136.27 | - |
| 25 | SC19 | State Key Laboratory of High-end Server & Storage Technology (HSS) | TStor3000 | INSPUR | BeeGFS | 10 | 300 | 82.57 | 41.14 | 165.71 | - |
| 26 | SC19 | University of Cambridge | Data Accelerator | Dell EMC | Lustre | 10 | 320 | 60.25 | 21.73 | 167.09 | - |
| 27 | SC19 | DDN | AI400 | DDN | Lustre | 10 | 240 | 63.88 | 19.65 | 207.63 | - |
| 28 | ISC20 | DDN | AI400X | DDN | Lustre | 10 | 160 | 69.92 | 21.01 | 232.70 | - |
| 29 | ISC20 | CSIRO | bracewell | Dell/DDN | Lustre | 10 | 400 | 99.64 | 39.90 | 248.81 | - |
| 30 | SC19 | WekaIO | WekaIO | WekaIO | WekaIO Matrix | 10 | 2,610 | 156.51 | 56.22 | 435.76 | - |
| 31 | SC19 | iFLYTEK | iFLYTEK | Yanrong | YRCloudFile | 10 | 200 | 78.54 | 13.55 | 455.18 | - |
| 32 | SC19 | NVIDIA | DGX-2H SuperPOD | DDN | Lustre | 10 | 400 | 249.50 | 86.97 | 715.76 | - |
| 33 | ISC20 | National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou | Venus2 | National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou | kapok | 10 | 260 | 148.08 | 30.62 | 716.11 | - |
| 34 | SC19 | EPCC | NextGENIO | NextGenIO (BSC & JGU) | GekkoFS | 10 | 240 | 125.08 | 21.47 | 728.68 | - |
| 35 | ISC20 | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | MOGON II | JGU (ADA-FS)& BSC (NEXTGenIO) | GekkoFS | 10 | 160 | 96.46 | 11.61 | 801.60 | - |
| 36 | ISC20 | EPCC | NextGENIO | NextGenIO (BSC & JGU) | GekkoFS | 10 | 280 | 152.30 | 24.83 | 934.12 | - |
| 37 | ISC20 | Argonne National Laboratory | Presque | Argonne National Laboratory | DAOS | 10 | 380 | 440.64 | 95.80 | 2,026.80 | - |
| 38 | ISC20 | TACC | Frontera | Intel | DAOS | 10 | 420 | 508.88 | 79.16 | 3,271.49 | - |
| 39 | ISC20 | Intel | Wolf | Intel | DAOS | 10 | 420 | 758.71 | 164.77 | 3,493.56 | - |